North Americas Role in ALMA
North America's Role in ALMA
North America's contributions to ALMA include:
- The North American ALMA Science Center, ALMA
"headquarters" for North America
- Receiver cartridges for ALMA bands 3 and 6
- An ALMA "Front End Integration Center" where receiver
cartridges from around the world are integrated into large
cabinets that are then shipped to Chile for installation
into antennas
- At least twenty-five 12-meter antennas
- ALMA's photonic local oscillator
- Digital electronics for transmitting signals from the
antennas
- The correlator for the 12-meter array
- The Array Operations Site (AOS) technical building,
second highest steel frame building in the world
- Road and power distribution to the AOS
- A variety of tools, including the Common Astronomy Software
Applications (CASA) tool,
Simdata, and Splatalogue.
